How We Became Hitler's Allies
28-08-2009 08:32
We are hearing again from Moscow that in 1939 Poland was Hitler's ally and together with the Germans wanted to attack the Soviet Union.
'The partnership between Germany and Russia has become an example of meeting each other halfway. I am sure that Russian-Polish relations too will sooner or later achieve this high level of a true partnership.'
We are hearing again from Moscow that in 1939 Poland was Hitler's ally and together with the Germans wanted to attack the Soviet Union.
The US plans for building elements of the missile defence system in Poland and the Czech Republic are virtually certain to be abandoned, say Gazeta's sources in Washington.
So Donald Tusk speaks about his and president Lech Kaczyński's speeches during the Westerplatte celebrations on 1 September.
The prime minister wants women as PO ticket leaders in half of the districts in Sejm elections. The PO's men are shocked. 'I'm not going to cede my place to a woman,' says an important PO politician.
From the Secrets of Secret Protocols, a 45-minute film about the Ribbentrop-Molotov pact is all the rage on Russian state TV and the country's web portals. To call it a propaganda piece would be putting things mildly.
The German and Soviet invasion of Poland was a prelude to a destructive war and the communist enslavement of eastern Europe, 140 German intellectuals write in a declaration.
The 1 September celebrations at Westerplatte in Gdańsk will be one of the three most important anniversary events in Europe this year, pledges culture minister Bogdan Zdrojewski.
Two months after the European elections almost one in two Poles don't know that it is us who elect the MEPs. PiS voters are least in the know on the subject.
The Ministry of Defence is planning to send another 200 troops to Afghanistan, Gazeta has learned unofficially.
'In a woods, some 100 metres from the Kharkov-Belgorod road, within a 50-metre radius, earth has collapsed in many places. The holes are rectangles 3 by 6 metres. One has been dug up. Human bones and skulls can be seen. Some of the bones are scattered on the ground. Remnants of foreign-made military footwear can also be found,' Gen Col Vitaliy Nikitchenko, head of the Committee of State Security of the Ukrainian Soviet Republic wrote on 7 June 1969 to then KGB-head Yuri Andropov and to Petro Shelest, leader of the Communist Party of Ukraine.
It is wrong to call a homosexual a faggot, the court in Szczecin ruled yesterday. A 44-year-old woman from Wolin has called her neighbour that has been ordered to pay a fine.
Party finances in crisis. Some (PO) can afford to play football, others (SLD) save even on printing paper.
This time the appeals took effect. For the first time in years there was no hissing and booing at the Gloria Victis memorial at the Powązki Cemetery on 1 August at W Hour. The 65th anniversary of the Warsaw Uprising was duly celebrated all over Poland.
Based on a preliminary medical examination of the human remnants in the cellar of the Orthodox cathedral in Hlybokaye, there are reasons to believe that the victims died a violent death - writes the official daily Sovetskaya Belorussiya. This could confirm the hypothesis that the murderers were from the NKVD and the victims were Poles.
The coalition will survive, but Treasury minister Aleksander Grad's bold privatisation agenda may collapse before it has even got off the ground. It will be buried jointly by the PO and PSL leaders.
The UEFA head arrived yesterday to visit the Euro 2012 host cities
For the government in Minsk, the issue of the remnants of Poles found in Hlybokaye in Belarus can be a test whether its declared opening towards the West - and therefore also towards Poland - is serious or just a bargaining card in geopolitical games with Russia.
Poles are not more worried about the financial crisis than they were a couple of months ago, a Gazeta poll shows.
Remnants of murdered Poles have been discovered in an Orthodox cathedral in Hlybokaye in Belarus. The local prosecutor's office has refused to launch an investigation and blames the Nazis. But historians say it's an NKVD crime.
A Polish offer for Paris. We want to work together to strengthen Europe's common defence policy - create international battalions and military infrastructure.
The Law and Justice's alliance with Britain's Conservative Party may be one of those 'brilliant' moves on the part of the PiS that are eventually going to turn into a disaster.
Lech Kaczyński supports eminent politicians from Central and Eastern Europe, signatories of the open letter to Barack Obama published yesterday. 'Our alliance with America is today undergoing its perhaps most severe test since the fall of communism,' writes the Polish president.
Outstanding politicians from Central and Eastern Europe are warning the US president that 'storm clouds are starting to gather on the foreign policy horizon.' America must not forget about the region, has to carry out a firm and principled policy towards Russia, and the missile defence is a test of Washington's credibility - write the signatories of an open letter to the Obama administration, among them Lech Wałęsa, Aleksander Kwaśniewski, and Vaclav Havel.
by Valdas Adamkus, Martin Butora, Emil Constantinescu, Pavol Demes, Lubos Dobrovsky, Matyas Eorsi, Istvan Gyarmati, Vaclav Havel, Rastislav Kacer, Sandra Kalniete, Karel Schwarzenberg, Michal Kovac, Ivan Krastev, Alexander Kwasniewski, Mart Laar, Kadri Liik, Janos Martonyi. Janusz Onyszkiewicz, Adam Rotfeld, Vaira Vike-Freiberga, Alexandr Vondra, Lech Walesa.
